One of the downsides of being unemployed is that it’s easy to end up spending large portions of the day alone. During daylight hours, I mean. Everyone else is at work. And I hate being alone. That’s one of my not so well concealed, secret weaknesses. Or I used to hate being alone. A lot [...]
Entries from January 2009
If It Feels Good Don’t Do It
January 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Something Else
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On Fire
January 28th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Memoirs
“You emerge from this marvelous novel as if from a dream, the mind on fire…” Some dumbass from New York wrote that about One Hundred Years of Solitude. Or something like that. As part of his review I mean. It’s printed back of the book. And some dumbass from New York was right. I highly [...]
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We Don’t Need Another Hero
January 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Favorites, Memoirs
Finally I’m not coughing every five seconds. Happy New Years again. People want to be heroes and they want to be special. Most people anyways. But for some reason it’s not considered cool to say that. “I want to be a hero and I want to be special.” So instead of saying it, people manifest [...]
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Borders Office
January 22nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Memoirs
There was only one seat available in Borders last night and it was near a circle of people. Little did I know the circle formed a writing group. But, I soon found out it was a writing group when one person began reading out loud a story she wrote. She was a grown woman and [...]
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Belated New Years Post
January 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Travel
It’s 2009! I almost forgot. Alright, alright, let me draft up a list of New Year’s resolutions. Go to Japan. Get drunk. While in Japan. Bang chicks. Go to Taiwan. So far far I’m five for five. Yeah baby! Ok, ok, just kidding. I haven’t gone to Taiwan yet. But I will. Today. In less [...]
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Foreign Invader
January 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Travel
Kyabakura. It’s too much and not enough at the same time. In theory and in practice, Kyabakura is a bar where girls come and sit next to you and pour drinks and touch your leg and flirt with you. I had never been before. We walked into a dimly lit club. It was like an [...]
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Hypothetical Correspondence
January 6th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Favorites, Travel
If say, hypothetically speaking there was a girl I loved and I wrote her an email regarding the first few days of my trip to Japan, an excerpt of that email might go a little something like the text below. Yesterday I wanted to check my email but we couldn’t get my friend’s computer to [...]
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A Whole New Level
January 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Travel
TAKEOFF I saw A. Remember A? The girl I met that one time in Vegas? She was even more hilarious than I remembered. But her boyfriend did not look particularly amused by my presence. He was decorated with a Leatherface tattoo. And others. They were visiting San Francisco. After I took BART home I had dinner [...]
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